hopscotch

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noun

hop·scotch ˈhäp-ˌskäch

: a child's game in which a player tosses an object (such as a stone) into areas of a figure outlined on the ground and hops through the figure and back to regain the object

hopscotch

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verb

hopscotched; hopscotching; hopscotches

intransitive verb

: to move as if by hopping

hopscotched across Europe

Examples of hopscotch in a Sentence

Verb The tour hopscotched from city to city. We hopscotched across the country.

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Noun

Trail Blazers player Deni Avdija used an iPad to sketch hopscotch squares onto the court (as well as his own face). —

Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019 Liz Moore’s excellent interrogation of class and generational injustice hopscotches among the 1950s, 1961, and the summer of 1975. —

Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024

Verb

In any event, Belichick is hardly the first coach to hopscotch from the sidelines to TV and back again. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024 Just 20 at the time, the kid had the looks, the blazing fastball, and the guts to hopscotch between the lines of cockiness and confidence. —

C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hopscotch